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    Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE...
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    fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings...
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  • This is a list of Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop. Aesop and the Ferryman The Ant and the Grasshopper...
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  • Aesop's Fables are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE...
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    "The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted...
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    oral transmission. Fables can be found in the literature of almost every country. The varying corpus denoted Aesopica or Aesop's Fables includes most of...
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    Aesop's Fables (later renamed Aesop's Sound Fables) is a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Produced from 1921...
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    based on Aesop's or Greek fables which are loved all around the world by both the adults and children. The Aesop's fables are a collection of fables that...
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    The Boy Who Cried Wolf (category Aesop's Fables)
    The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give...
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    The Ant and the Grasshopper (category Aesop's Fables)
    Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food...
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  • Aesop's Fables: The Smothers Brothers Way is the seventh comedy album by the Smothers Brothers (released March 15, 1965, on Mercury Records). It reached...
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    The Scorpion and the Frog (category Fables)
    to Aesop, although it does not appear in any collection of Aesop's fables prior to the 20th century. However, there are a number of ancient fables traditionally...
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    and the Crow is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index. There are early Latin and Greek versions and the fable may even have been portrayed...
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    The Fox and the Grapes (category Aesop's Fables)
    The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index. The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally...
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    the Aesop's Fables series to screenwriter Howard Estabrook. In 1920, Terry entered into a partnership with Amedee J. Van Beuren, and founded Fables Pictures...
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    brand Aesop in record $3.7 billion deal". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 April 2023. Strickland, Katrina (25 April 2017). "Aesop's fable: the skincare...
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  • The North Wind and the Sun (category Aesop's Fables)
    The North Wind and the Sun is one of Aesop's Fables (Perry Index 46). It is type 298 (Wind and Sun) in the Aarne–Thompson folktale classification. The...
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    The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (category Aesop's Fables)
    Aesop's Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne–Thompson's folk tale index. Like several other elements in Aesop's fables,...
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    The Dog and Its Reflection (category Aesop's Fables)
    Dog and Its Reflection (or Shadow in later translations) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 133 in the Perry Index. The Greek language original...
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    The Lion and the Mouse (category Aesop's Fables)
    The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate...
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    Aesop's Fables, II is a 2005 steel sculpture by Mark Di Suvero, installed on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus, in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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  • Perry Index (category Aesop's Fables)
    The Perry Index is a widely used index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the fables credited to Aesop, the storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between...
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    forerunner of all modern field guides. He notably illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables throughout his life. He is "usually considered the founder of wood-engraving"...
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  • of something. The phrase derives from the plot of a number of fables ascribed to Aesop and is used here as their generic title. There are two main types...
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  • Wolf in sheep's clothing (category Fables)
    of Aesop's Fables in modern times, there is no record of a fable with this precise theme before the Middle Ages, although there are earlier fables of...
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    of fables. Many of the fables she wrote were translations of Aesop’s fables into English and others can be traced to more regional sources, fables to...
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  • October 1980) "Aesop's Fables: Disobedient Donkey" (24 November 1980) "Aesop's Fables: Hare and Tortoise" (26 November 1980) "Aesop's Fables: The Fox and...
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    The Frog and the Mouse (category Aesop's Fables)
    The Frog and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables and exists in several versions. It is numbered 384 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern versions...
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  • fable in Latin titled De rustico amnem transituro in his Hecatomythium and this was subsequently included in European collections of Aesop's fables....
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    those written earlier. The first collection of Fables Choisies had appeared March 31, 1668, dividing 124 fables into six books over its two volumes. They were...
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